Friedrich august laesecke



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRIEDRICH AUGUST LAESECKE, OF LEIPSIO, ASSIGNOR OF TWO-THIRDS TO EDUARDSOI-IMAHL AND FRITZ FELLER, OF BERLIN, GERMANY.

METHOD OF PRODUCING PATTERNS OR DRAWI'NGS N OlL-PAlNT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 469,045, dated February16, 1892.

Application filed eptember 11,1891. Serial No. 405,426. (No specimens) ITo all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRIEDRICH AUGUST LAESECKE, of Leipsic, in theKingdom of SPLX ony, German Empire, have invented new and usefulImprovements in the Method of Producing Patterns or Drawings onOil-Paint, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a method of producing patterns or designs uponthe surfaces to of objects in oil-paint; and it consists in certainsteps which I will now proceed to describe.

For the purpose of illustration I will suppose that it is desired tograin the surface of any object.

In carrying out my process in this instance the surface is first primedand then painted over with water-color. A blotter is prepared fromleather, felt, paper, or other suitable absorbent, which will take upthe paint with which the surface is covered, and upon one surface ofthis blotter the desired grain is printed in some fatty matter, oil,resin, or other like material, which is a non-absorbent 2 5 of the saidpaint, and so will prevent the blotter from taking up the paint on suchportions of its surface as are covered and protected by this fatty oroily matter. The blotter thus prepared is then applied to the paintedsurface of the object to be grained, and is firmly pressed upon thissurface. TVhen thus applied, the blotter will absorb the water-color atall parts of its surface which are vnot covered and protected by thefatty or oily material, but of course will not absorb the paint wherethis fatty or oily material comesin contact with the paint. When theblotter is -removed from the painted surface, there will thereforeremain. upon the latter an exact 40 copy in paint of the graining designwhich had previously been printed or traced on the blotter, and aftersuch removal of the blotter this painted surface may be finished up bytreatment with the rubber, sponge, or comb,

or any other usual mode of finishing grained surfaces.

I have described my process as applied to graining for the purpose ofillustration only, as already stated. It is obvious that any desiredpattern or design may be produced upon the painted surface in the sameway as described above for graining, the surfaces which it is desired todecorate being first primed and coated with paint, as described above.Therefore I wish to be understood as claiming this process, broadly, forthe production of all kinds of patterns and designs in paint upon anysurface which it is desired to decorate and to which this process isapplicable.

This process is attended with the following advantages: It is verysimple and easily practiced, it is much cheaper than the ordinarymethods in use, and especially it results in the production of accuratedesigns upon the surface painted. It is obvious that this latter resultmust follow, from the fact that the pattern or design can be printed ortraced upon the blotter with perfect accuracy, and of course an exactcopy thereof is obtained in paint on the surface to be decorated.

Having thus described my inven tion, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

The herein-described process for producing patternsor designs in painton any suitable surface, the same consisting in first coating saidsurface with a paint of the color desired and then applying thereto,under suitable pressure, a blotter of paintabsorbing material upon thecontact surface of which the desired pattern or design has been tracedor printed in some suitable material which is a non-absorbent of thepaint, substantially as described. i

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of twowitnesses.

FRIEDRICH AUGUST LAESECKE.

\Vitnesses:

Hueo PATAKY, CARL BORNGRAEBER.

